The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-11-16

Some Observations on Tips" and "Rsss"-
Getting to the Station.
Familiar Ineid ents to Traveiers-New Eng
Iand in Autumn-The "Cane Rush''
Student-Fun Nuggets.
Written Especially for the 5entinelI

the LANDLORDS, but never had that luck.
There Was one hotel that we struck last
winter, down in New Hampshire-the
smiler House. 1 don't remember the real
name of 1t, but we always speak of it as
the Smiler House. OF all the pleasant
landlords that ever welcomed coming or
reluctantly relinquished his grip on part
ing guest, mine host Of the Smiler
House was the pleasantest. His face
Us from the stage. he beamed over the
party as we registered; he lighted our way
to our rooms with smiles; he shook hands
every Eve minutes; he welcomed Us again,
expressed his Joy at seeing Us, the great
honor he felt il to be to entertain Us, and
besought us 70 consider the house and all
peared in beaming lacew0rk OF smiles,
like 8 great, good.natured humble bee
diving into tangle of mornlng-glories.
We fell in love with aim at once We
souldnt help it.
am PANIED to be obliged to say that the
ardor OF our love abated when, after smil
ing Us into the diniDg-room, and tenderly
committing us to the care OF a much
banged young lady, he left Us to realize
that absence makes the heart grow fon-
der" OF something to eat. Hope faded
when the bread came on. No love could
stand the alligator steak laid out for love
to fatten on. Our hearts grew colder than
an Alpine river when the despairing
buckvheat cake, frozen to death its
Journey from the distant kitchen, where it
had been fighting starvation, laid down
before us and died. Bat oh, that beef-steakl
/ I'm not man at all given to the pleas
ures of the table. II isn't often that !
know what am eating, and I hate ban
-suets The long tables, lined with gorg-
ing men, always make me think of the
feeding troughs in the stock. yards. But
that steak at the Smiler House, You
could taste the horn that had been cut
off with 1t, and while am no epicure, l
do know that good, juicy, porterh0use
steak is not cut from between the horns.
We stayed at the Smller house two days.
We did no starye, because the Prince had
a pair of rubber boots that he had out
grown. We ate them, and at night got
piece OF cheese out of rat trap in the hall,
upon which L feasted alone, the other
When we tottered out to the stage, Mr..
Smiler smiled Us down the mounIain-side
in perfect gleam of rosy splendor.
THE AMERICAN WAITER.
The American waiter is a source OF con-
slant study to me whenever / am ony my
travels, and at no other time is he so inter
estipg to me as when he has to deal with
the lone woman at the hotel. / have been
watching him, and 1 have seen the lone
woman come into the diniDg-room, sit
down at the table and starve TO death,
while everybody else-that is, every man
soody-who came in after her got their or
'5ers promptly served, The lone woman
or any woman, in fsct-does most MORALLY
hate TO "tip" a waiter or q porter when
she is paying full rates anyhow. She
won't do it II she can possibly exist with
out 1t, and when she does give a fee, 1t is
usually i've cents, and ten cents she con-
siders an enormous, princely gratuity.
The waiter and the hall-boy and the
porter ali know this, and consequently
the lone woman, while she Is never
ms iPsults %,no., and .nd is treated with
and with genuine courtesy at the desk, is
quietly ignored by the servants, and her
hotel and railway lines have fallen in stony
places. This "npping" business has gro wn
to be an outrageous nuisance even in these
United States. Our citizens who travel
abroad bring home the evil habit, CONNER
sial travellers and people in all lines of the
dramatic professions are much given to ii,
and il is beginning to be so that you are
rather neglected without it. Frequently in
good hotels, where all the help is well paid,
the servant VIII remind you that he ex-
poets to be remembered" A few weeks
-sgo ran into Harrisburg, left my family
At hotel, arranging for them TO meet
intervening runs were too hard for the
Prince. I got mp at a. m, carried my
own Valise down stairs, never saw hide
nor wool OF porter, and went my ways.
Two days later, when the family came
away freedman, whose shackles had
been removed by mistake, lurking about
to carry what few articles the guest could
not take told my sister that he had waited ON
me constantly, and that I said I would
give him half dollar when l came back.
She gave the brigand fifty cents. haven't
been back there yet, but am going Ny
work has been quite exhausting this sea.
SOD, and I need recreation; so / have
promised myself the pleasure OF attending
colortd funeral.
GETTING TO THE STATION.
The man who has mad occasion to get to
railway station from q country hotel,
however, has had an experience that lin
Of the commercial traveller, who Is won
derfUi missionary, has changed matters 9
little in this respect, but still you occas
ionsIly find tbs old-time country land
lord who is IN able to understand the few
erish esgerness of the sojourner to catch
the 1920 q. m passenger East, when there
Ia q freight going West at 1880 p. m. You
tell him you want to go TO the station thii
morning. and ask for your bill. He chewI
a toothpick q moment, then looks at you
name on the register a long, Ions
time. Then she sigbs, and looks int
a book behind the desk, il
which there has never beer
an entry made since the death of hi
father who Kept the tavern before him
You can see this book any time lynn
around among the candles and the kero
sene lamps and matches. When he sees i,
il besides the old entries made In hi
fathers still, regular cbirogrsphy, b
must see with the eye Of faith. Maybe b
looks back till he finds an entry agains
some guest who stayed In his fathers tim
about as long as you have. / think tina
must be 1t, because when at last b
closes that book be tells you the amour
of your bill. If you have been there on
day or three weeks & takes just the sam
time to give you the amount of your bill
Then you are ready to &C. He says he'
get you down to the station. Half an hou
later you tell him you are all ready. II
looks surprised.
"Hsin'tthem boys come around with th
wagon"
Then he remembers that he forgot to to
them. Then he "hollers" for "tbe boys
until he learns that they have taken th
wagon on . trip in another direction II
says it's no difference, the train doesn't Z
tili 4 o'clock. You tell him your trsi